Issue im having with my sled!

[Mike Dumas]

Ok first im going to start off by saying if this is not the place to post please remove it

To start off, this issue started up last year... It starts up great (within 2-3 pulls cold start) Idles great starts off fantastic rides around fine for about 15 minutes (Of moving time.. ive left it on for 30+ minutes and then ran it around for 15 minutes) Then it starts to lose power like its not getting gas, usually has enough to slow ride it to the garage and then as soon as i get to the slight incline by my garage it bogs to no power at all and as soon as you take your hand off the throttle it dies out. I temp fixed it last year by cleaning the carbs spotless and brought it to a lake and ran it around for a good hour+ with no issues till i got it back to the trailer it did the same thing. Well cleaned out the carbs the other day 100% including the pilot ect til it was shiney. started up after 5 pulls (Even filling the bowls, i just put a tad gas in each cyl to help pull the gas into the bowls) and after 15 minutes... same thing. Im about to replace all the gas lines and try to replace the fuel filter again (Just replaced it last year) and see if this does anything, but the fuel pump is also clear. If changing the lines and filter does not do anything (HOPING IT DOES!) what else could it be? I am stumped here. I am getting good spark and after i let the sled sit for 5 minutes in this colder weather 15 pulls later and it starts up again ( doesnt last as long til i let it sit overnight again) So i dont know if its just not getting the gas into the bowl and one of lines is partially clogged and once the bowl emptys it struggles to stay running with the little gas that is getting to them or what. Thanks in advance for the thoughts yall!

[BoxMN]

I won't be able to help you much, but please put the year make and model and the guys here will likely be able to hep you more. Hope you get it going!

Almost sounds to me like the float is not letting enough gas in, or fast enough. Had that on an outboard once. Good luck.

[Mike Dumas]

OK... Just a small update and it really make sense to be the issue.... When I took the line out by the filter to bring it up to get the right size lines... I found a chunck of plastic wedged in the Lin almost entirely blocking it looks like its from the old filter.. How I didn't notice it missing a piece when I replaced it I don't know . and if it does fix it I'll update y'all. To bad it took this long to find it. ROFL! Bye its a 94 Indy lite deluxe

[Macgyver55]

By the sound of it you may have found your problem! Lets hope so!

[Mike Dumas]

I'd say this makes sense used all the fuel in the bowl but didn't have enough umf to pull enough fuel through with this in the way.. Then 15 pulls eventually got enough gas in bowl to fire up but not last... Then gravity while its off overnight fills up enough to run for that 15 minutes. Getting geared up now to test it out. Hoping it was that easy of a fix... And what a place to Be.. Think of getting no fuel you start in a lot of other places including cleaning carbs and such before thinking of the lines lol

[leech~~]

Replace the line with the clear stuff this time so you can see the gas flow!

[Mike Dumas]

Where can I order like 10 feet of it?

[BoxMN]

I think you can just get it Ace or big box stores, or Napa I think.

[Mike Dumas]

Sweet thanks. I picked up a little bit to replace the one piece for now. But I saw a post before when I was trying to figure my issue out that someone had that clear lines. Pretty slick

[leech~~]

There are a lot of clear type hose out there. Make sure you get some for gas or is may crack and leave you out in the cold! The stuff I picked up was "clear blue" gas line and it may have come from fleet or the hardware up in CrossLake I can't remember? I just used a chunk of it to drain some old gas out of one sled. It stays pliable even in the cold. But, the nice thing is you can always tell when you have gas flow with it on.

[randerson]

I was reading on a Kregslist add that there was a sled with a main bearing problem it would work fine till it heated up about 15 mins or so Hopefully its the fuel line and not a bearing

[sunniewally]

wouldn't hurt to check the one in the gas tank. i had trouble with one of mine once and the line in the tank was garbage.

[Mike Dumas]

Yes I replaced mine in tank last year with a normal fuel hose. Gotta order one with a filter for this yr. I don't ride my sled much. Usually just comes up to milacs with me and ride it around for fun when the bite is slow